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LIST OF PUBLIC ACTS,

Passed in the Fourth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.-56 GEO. III.-A. D. 1816.

1. An Act to revive and continue, until the 25th of March 1818, several laws relating to the duties on glass made in Great Britain. 2. To revive and further continue, until the 25th of March 1817, an act of the 7th of George 2nd, for the free importation of cochineal and indigo.

S. For continuing to his majesty certain duties on malt, sugar, tobacco, and snuff, in Great Britain; and on pensions, offices, and personal estates, in England; for the service of the year 1816.

4. For raising the sum of eleven millions, by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1816.

5. To extend the powers of an act of the 37th of his present majesty, for enabling his majesty more effectually to grant conditional pardons to persons under sentence of naval courts-martial, and to regulate imprisonment under such sentences.

6. To continue, until the 5th of July 1816, an act of the 54th of his present majesty, for explaining and amending several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England. 7. To continue, until the 5th of April 1818, and amend an act of the 48th of his present majesty, for empowering the governor and company of the bank of England, to advance the sum of three millions towards the supply for the service of the year 1808. 3. To continue, until the 5th of July 1817, an act of the 49th of his present majesty, for regulating the trade and commerce to and from the Cape of Good Hope. 9. For charging certain duties on foreign packets or passage-vessels entering or departing any of the ports of Great Britain. 10. For punishing mutiny and desertion; and for the better payment of the army and their quarters.

11. For the regulating of his majesty's royal marine force while on shore.

12. For exhibiting a bill in this present parliament, for naturalizing his serene highness Leopold George Frederick duke of Saxe, margrave of Meissen, landgrave of Thuringuen, prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld. 13. For the naturalization of his serene highness Leopold George Frederick duke of Saxe, margrave of Meissen, landgrave of Thuringuen, prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld; and settling his precedence.

14. For empowering the governor and company of the bank of England, to advance

the sum of six millions, towards the supply for the service of the year 1816.

15. To carry into effect a convention of commerce, concluded between his majesty and the United States of America.

16. For better regulating the offices of receivers of crown rents.

17. To continue, until the 5th of July 1821, certain additional duties of excise in Great Britain.

18. To suspend, until the 5th April 1820, the duty on lead exported from Great Britain. 19. To continue, until the 5th of July 1816, an act of the 47th of his present majesty, for granting an additional bounty on double refined sugar exported.

20. To make further provision for the execution of the several acts relating to the revenues, matters and things, under the management of the commissioners of customs and port duties, and of the commissioners of inland excise and taxes in Ireland. 21. To revive and continue, until two years after the expiration of the restrictions upon payments in cash by the bank of England, an act for suspending the operation of an act of the 17th of his present majesty, for restraining the negociation of promissory notes and bills of exchange under a limited sum, in England.

22. For the more effectually detaining in custody Napoleon Buonaparté.

23. For regulating the intercourse with the island of St. Helena, during the time Napoleon Buonaparté shall be detained there; and for indemnifying persons in the cases therein mentioned.

24. For better enabling his majesty to make provision for the establishment of her royal highness the princess Charlotte Augusta, and his serene highness Leopold George Frederick duke of Saxe, margrave of Meissin, landgrave of Thuringuen, prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld.

25. For charging certain duties on the importation of butter.

26. For charging certain duties on the importation of cheese.

27. To amend several laws relative to the

transportation of offenders; to continue in force until the 1st of May 1821.

28. To enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills, on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by parliament for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1816,

29. To make perpetual certain temporary or war duties of customs, on the importation into Great Britain of goods, wares, and merchandize, and to repeal so much of several acts passed in the 47th, 49th, and 51st of the reign of his present majesty, as charge any loans made for the service of the years 1807, 1809, and 1811, upon the war duties of customs or excise, and to charge such loans on the duties of customs made perpetual.

30. For indemnifying the commissioners of excise in Scotland, and all persons who may have acted under their authority, in relation to certain orders issued and things done relative to certain acts regarding the distilleries in Scotland.

31. For transferring all contracts and securities entered into with or given to the commissioners for transports, to the commissioners of the navy and victualling. 32. For fixing the rates of subsistence to be paid to innkeepers and others on quartering soldiers.

33. To indemnify such persons in the united kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for offices and employments, and for extending the time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th of March 1817; and to permit such persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the execution of indentures of clerks to attornies and solicitors to make and file the same on or before the 1st day of Hilary Term 1817.

34. To charge an additional duty on corks, ready made, imported into Great Britain. 35. For the more speedy and effectual collection of the tonnage duty upon ships inwards; for empowering the lords of the treasury to regulate the hours of officers attendance in the port of London; and for permitting ships to commence and complete their loading of coals before the delivery of the fitters certificates.

36. To repeal two acts passed in the reigns of Edward 4th and Richard 3rd, which prohibit the importation of wrought goods and certain other articles.

37. To permit the importation of prunes the produce of Germany.

38. To empower his majesty to suspend the ballot or enrolment for the local militia. 39. To reduce the number of days of muster or exercise of yeomanry and volunteer cavalry.

40. For the further continuing, until the 5th of July 1818, an act of the 44th of his present majesty, to continue the restrictions contained in the several acts of his present majesty, on payments of cash by the bank of England.

41. For raising the sum of 2,470,000l. Irish currency, by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1816. 42. For raising the sum of 1,700,000l. British currency, by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1816,

43. For making certain allowances of the duties payable on malt and beer.

44. To repeal the duties, allowances, and drawbacks of excise, on hard soap made in Great Britain, and imported from Ireland; and to grant other duties, allowances, and drawbacks in lieu thereof.

45. For defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the local militia in Great Britain, to the 25th of March 1817.

46. For the better regulation of the civil list. 47. For raising the sum of 1,200,000l. Irish currency, by treasury bills, for the service of Ireland, for the year 1816.

48. To continue, until three months after the ceasing of any restriction imposed on the bank of England from issuing cash in payment, the several acts for confirming and continuing the restrictions on payments in cash by the bank of Ireland.

49. To explain and amend an act, passed in the last session of parliament, for the more easy assessing, collecting, and levying of county rates.

50. To regulate the sale of farming stock taken in execution.

51. To amend an act passed in the present session of parliament, intituled 'An act to

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carry into Effect a Convention of Com'merce concluded between his Majesty and 'the United States of America.'

52. To amend and render more effectual an act passed in the last session of parliament, for enabling spiritual persons to exchange their parsonage houses or glebe lands, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 53. To amend and render more effectual three several acts passed in the 48th, 49th, and 52d of his present majesty, for enabling the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt to grant life annuities.

54. For raising the sum of 13,000,000l. by exchequer bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1816.

55. To amend an act of the parliament of Ireland, in the 40th of his present majesty's reign, for granting the sum of 500,000l. for promoting inland navigation, and for other purposes therein mentioned; and to enlarge the powers vested in the directors of all works relating to inland navigation in Ireland.

56. To repeal the several stamp duties in Ireland, and also several acts for the collection and management of the said duties, and to grant new stamp duties in lieu thereof; and to make more effectual regulations for collecting and managing the said duties. 57. To grant certain rates, duties, and taxes in Ireland, in respect of fire hearths, windows, male servants, horses, carriages, and dogs, in lieu of former rates, duties, and taxes; and to provide for the more effectual collection of the said rates, duties, and

taxes.

58. To repeal an act made in the 51st of his present majesty, for allowing the manufac

ture and use of a liquor prepared from sugar for colouring porter. 59. To reduce the duty of excise on malt made in Ireland, and certain countervailing duties and drawbacks in respect thereof. 60. To authorize the transferring stock upon which dividends shall remain unclaimed for the space of at least ten years at the bank of England, and also all lottery prizes or benefits, and balances of sums issued for paying the principals of stocks or annuities, which shall not have been demanded for the same period, to the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt. 61. For granting to his majesty a sum of money to be raised by lotteries.

62. For erecting a harbour for ships to the eastward of Dunleary, within the port of Dublin.

63. To regulate the general penitentiary for convicts, at Millbank, in the county of Middlesex.

64. To repeal several acts relating to the militia of Great Britain, and to amend other acts relating thereto.

65. To explain and amend the acts for granting duties on the profits arising from property, professions, trades, and offices, so far as extend to the due assessment and collection of the duties for past years; for confirming certain abatements already made of the said duties, and exempting collectors bonds from the stamp duties. 66. For reducing the duties payable on horses, used for the purposes therein mentioned, for two years; and for repealing the acts granting allowances in respect of children. 67. To enable such officers, mariners, and soldiers, as have been in the land or sea service, or in the marines, or in the militia, or any corps of fencible men, since the 42d of his present majesty's reign, to exercise trades.

68. To provide for a new silver coinage, and

to regulate the currency of the gold and silver coin of this realm.

69. To continue, until the 25th of March 1818, two acts of the 54th of his present majesty, for repealing the duties of customs on madder imported into Great Britain, and for granting other duties in lieu thereof. 70. To alter and amend several acts relating to the redemption of the national debt of Ireland, and to make further provision in respect thereof.

71. To amend an act of the 51st of his pre

sent majesty's reign, for discharging certain arrears of quit, crown, and composition rents in Ireland.

72. To continue and amend so much of an act of the 43d of his present majesty's reign, for authorizing the billetting and subjecting to military discipline certain yeomanry corps, and officers of cavalry or infantry, as relates to such corps in Ireland. 73. For removing difficulties in the conviction of offenders stealing property from mines.

74. For the purchase of certain lands, tenements, and hereditaments at Sheerness and Chatham, in the county of Kent, for the use of the navy.

75. To repeal the duties of customs upon the importation into the united kingdom of rape seed and cole seed, and to grant other duties in lieu thereof.

76. For repealing the several bounties on the exportation of refined sugar, from any part of the united kingdom, and for allowing other bounties in lieu thereof, until the 5th day of July 1818.

77. To repeal certain duties granted by an act passed in the last session of parliament, for repealing the provisions of foriner acts granting exclusive privileges of trade to the South Sea Company.

78. For the better regulating and securing the collection of the duties on paper in Ireland,

and to prevent frauds therein.

79. For repealing the duties of customs on rape seed cakes, linseed cakes, bones of cattle and other animals, and of fish, except whale fins, imported into Great Britain; and for granting other duties in lieu thereof.

80. To enable the principal officers and commissioners of his majesty's navy resident on foreign stations to grant certificates of stores or goods, which may be sold by such officers or commissioners at such foreign

stations.

81. To alter the period during which manufacturers of oil of vitriol are to deliver in their accounts.

82. To render valid the judicial acts of surrogates of vice-admiralty courts abroad, during vacancies in office of judges of such

courts.

83. For regulating the carrying of passengers to and from the island of Newfoundland and coast of Labrador.

84. For the better accommodation of his majesty's packets within the harbour of Holyhead, in the island of Anglesea; and for the better regulation of the shipping therein. 85. To make further regulations for securing the collection of the duties of customs and excise in Ireland, and for the importation into Ireland of American staves, and of old plate and books from Great Britain. 86. For establishing regulations respecting aliens arriving in or resident in this kingdom, in certain cases, for two years from the passing of this act, and until the end of the session of parliament in which the said two years shall expire, if parliament shall be then sitting.

87. Tò regulate proceedings of grand juries in Ireland, upon bills of Indictment. 88. To amend the law of Ireland, respecting the recovery of tenements from absconding, overholding, and defaulting tenants; and for the protection of the tenant from undue distress.

89. To provide for the charge of certain ad

ditions to the public debt of Ireland, for the service of the year 1816. 90. To defray the charge of the pay, clothing, and contingent expenses of the disembodied militia in Great Britain, and of the miners of Cornwall and Devon; and for granting allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers, adjutants, surgeons mates, and serjeant-majors of militia, until the 25th of March 1817.

91. To regulate the trade of the colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo; to allow the importation into, and exportation from, such colonies, of certain articles, by Dutch proprietors of the European dominions of his majesty the king of the Netherlands; and to repeal an act of the 54th of his present majesty, for permitting a trade between the United Provinces and certain colonies in his majesty's possession. 92. To enable his majesty to authorize the exportation of the machinery necessary for erecting a mint in the united states of America.

93. For enabling the officers of the customs at creeks, harbours, and basins of Great Britain, to take entries of ships and goods arriving from and bound to Ireland. 94. To allow makers of oxygenated muriatic acid, to take crushed rock salt, duty free, for making such acid, or oxymuriate of lime for bleaching linen and cotton. 95. To authorize such person as his majesty shall appoint to transfer a certain sum in three pounds per cent. reduced annuities, now standing in the name of the dissolved college of Hertford, in the university of Oxford; and also to receive dividends due upon such annuities.

96. For establishing an agreement with the governor and company of the bank of England, for advancing the sum of three millions, for the service of the year 1816. 97. To authorize the advancing, for the public service, a proportion of the balance that shall remain from time to time in the bank of England for the payment of dividends on account of the public debt, for lottery prizes or benefits not claimed, and principals of stocks and annuities remaining unclaimed.

98. To unite and consolidate into one fund all the public revenues of Great Britain and Ireland, and to provide for the application thereof to the general service of the united kingdom.

99. To vest the Elgin collection of ancient marbles and sculpture in the trustees of the British museum for the use of the public.

100. For more effectually securing the liberty of the subject.

101. For enabling the officers in his majesty's navy, and their representatives, to draw for and receive their half-pay, and for transferring the duty of making certain payments from the clerks of the cheque at his

majesty's dock-yards to the clerks of the treasurer of the navy at the same yards. 102. To amend the act of the 53rd of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England;' and to give further powers to the court appointed by the said act.

103. For further securing the duties on paper and pasteboard; and for repealing the countervailing duty upon pasteboard imported from Ireland, and the drawback upon pasteboard exported; and granting other countervailing duties and drawbacks in lieu thereof.

104. For the making more effectual provision for the prevention of smuggling, and rewarding officers and persons making seizures and capturing smuggling vessels; for licensing luggers employed in the North Sea fishery; and obliging exporters of exciseable goods on drawback to give notice of shipment.

105. To amend and continue, until the end of the next session of parliament, an act of the 54th of his present majesty, for regu lating the trade in spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally, and to grant and allow new countervailing duties and drawbacks on spirits imported and ex ported between England and Scotland and Ireland respectively.

106. To repeal the duties payable in Scotland upon wash and spirits, and distillers licences, to grant other duties in lieu thereof, and to establish further regulations for the distillation of spirits from corn for home consumption in Scotland, until the 10th of November 1818.

107. To amend an act of the last session of parliament relating to stamp duties in Great Britain, so far as relates to inventories to be exhibited and recorded in any commissary court in Scotland.

108. To repeal certain drawbacks and countervailing duties of excise on beer and malt; to alter the drawbacks on plate glass, and to prevent frauds therein. 109. To continue, until the 5th of July 1817, an act of the 46th of his present majesty, for granting an additional bounty on the exportation of the silk manufactures of Great Britain.

110. For the further regulation of the trades of tanners and curriers.

111. To repeal part of the duty on spirits distilled in Ireland, to reduce the drawback on such spirits exported to foreign parts, and to make further regulations for the collection of the said duties, and the duties on licences for retailing spirituous and other liquors in Ireland.

112. To make certain provisions for modifying the several acts for imposing and levying of fines, in respect of unlawful distillation of spirits in Ireland.

113. For repealing the duties payable for licences for retailing beer, ale, cyder, perry,

or spirits in Great Britain, and for imposing other duties in lieu thereof. 114. To regulate the conveyance of passengers from the united kingdom to the united states of America, in British vessels. 115. For ratifying the purchase of the Claremont estate, and for settling the same as a residence for her royal highness the princess Charlotte Augusta and his serene highness Leopold George Frederick prince of Cobourg of Saalfeld.

116. To explain and amend an act, passed in the 55th of the reign of his present majesty, intituled, An Act for the Abolition of gaol and other fees connected with the gaols ' in England.'

117. To amend an act passed in the 39th and 40th of the reign of his present majesty, for the safe custody of insane persons charged with offences.

118. For admitting oil and blubber from the British colonies in North America, upon payment of the like duty as oil and blubber from Newfoundland.

119. To explain and amend an act passed in the present session of parliament for punishing mutiny and desertion, in relation to the transportation of offenders. 120. To procure annual returns of persons committed, tried, and convicted for criminal offences and misdemeanors in Ireland. 121. For defraying, until the 25th of June, 1817, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland, and for making allowances in certain cases to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace. 122. To make provision for securing, for a time to be limited, the profits of the office of clerk of the pleas of his majesty's court of exchequer in Ireland.

123. To continue, until the 5th of April, 1817, an act of the 54th of his present majesty, for explaining and amending several acts relating to spiritual persons holding of farms, and for enforcing the residence of such persons on their benefices in England.

194. To continue, until the 1st of August, 1817, two acts of the 50th and 55th of his present majesty, allowing the bringing of coals, culm, and cinders, to London and Westminster.

125. For the more effectual punishment of persons riotously destroying or damaging buildings, engines, and machinery, used in and about collieries and other mines, waggon ways, bridges, and other works, used in conveying and shipping coals and other minerals; and for enabling the owners of such property to recover damages for the injury sustained.

126. To amend an act of the 53rd of his present majesty, for the relief of insolvent debtors in Ireland.

127. To reduce the duty on the exportation from Great Britain of small coals of a certain description.

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128. To amend two acts made in the 53rd of the reign of his present majesty, for opening a more convenient communication from Mary le bone Park to Charing-cross, and for paving the streets to be made in Maryle-bone Park, and to enable his majesty to grant small portions of land as sites for public buildings, or to be used as cemeteries, within the bills of mortality.

129. To repeal certain provisions in local acts for the maintenance and management of the poor.

130. To repeal an act made in the 39th and 40th of his present majesty's reign, intituled, "An Act to extend the provisions of an Act made in the 17th of the reign of king George the Second, intituled, 'An Act to amend and make more effec'tual the laws relating to rogues, vaga'bonds, and other idle and disorderly

persons, and to houses of correction,' " and to make other provisions in lieu thereof.

131. To revive and continue, until the 15th of June, 1817, an act of the 52nd of his present majesty, for the more effectual preservation of the peace, by enforcing the duties of watching and warding.

132. For enlarging the time for making the award respecting his majesty's allotments under an act of the 53rd of his present majesty, for inclosing Windsor Forest; and for extending the provisions of the said

act.

133. For making provision to defray the annual charge of any loan of this session of parliament.

134. For allowing a drawback of the duty on coals consumed in lead mines in Cornwall. 135. For authorizing the barons of the court of exchequer in Scotland, to order the payment of a certain sum of money, to be applied in completing the Crinan-canal. 136. To enable his majesty to grant certain lands, tenements, and hereditaments, escheated and devolved to his majesty by the dissolution of Hertford college, in the university of Oxford, and the site of the said college and buildings thereon, to the chancellor, masters, and scholars of the said university, in trust for the principal and other members of Magdalen-hall, for the purpose of their removing to such site; and to enable the said chancellor masters, and scholars of the said university, and the president and scholars of Saint Mary Magdalen college, to do all necessary acts for such removal.

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